Jordie Albiston

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Jordie Albiston (born 1961) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.

Jordie Albiston, grew up in Melbourne, studied flute at Victoria College of the Arts before turning to writing. Her first collection Nervous Arcs won the Mary Gilmore Award. Since then she has published two 'documentary' collections about the first women in the Botany Bay settlement, and Jean Lee the last woman executed in Australia. The first work evolving out of a Ph D she undertook in literature. In August 2006 an Opera of The Hanging of Jean Lee, composed by Andrée Greenwell, was performed at the Sydney Opera House.

She is married to poet Ian McBryde.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Nervous Arcs (Spinifex, 1995)
  • Botany Bay Document (North Fitzroy: Black Pepper, 1996)
  • The Hanging of Jean Lee (North Fitzroy: Black Pepper, 1998)
  • The Fall (White Crane, 2003) reviewed

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